All Bible verses
quoted are from NIV, if not otherwise mentioned
Church as
a Community
What is a
Community?
A “Community” may
be defined provisionally as a social collectivity bound by a common identity,
values, and norms
Kibbutz
The modern Jewish Kibbutz share many similarities
with the first Christian Church.
Knowing the modern Kibbutz will be helpful to
understand the first Church.
A kibbutz (Hebrew: קִבּוּץ / קיבוץ, lit. "gathering, clustering"; plural kibbutzim)
is a collective community in Israel that was
traditionally based on agriculture.